LOS ANGELES — Yonkers native Sean Kilpatrick was trying to cram in a couple hours of sleep between a back-to-back with the D-League Delaware 87ers when his phone woke him. His agent was on the other end with a message that was as short as it was sweet: You’re going home.

Brooklyn inked Kilpatrick to a 10-day contract Saturday, capping a whirlwind span that saw him play for the 87ers in Portland, Maine, on Thursday, fly back to Delaware early Friday morning and fly across country to join his hometown NBA team in the midst of a road trip here Saturday.

“I was trying to get two hours of sleep in before the next game, and my agent was just calling me nonstop,” said Kilpatrick, 26. “I was wondering what was going on. When I finally woke up, he was just like, ‘Hey man, you’re going home.’ I said, ‘Going home? They must’ve either got rid of me or traded me.’ I didn’t know what was going on. So then, he’s like, ‘Nah, the Brooklyn Nets, they picked you up!’

“I just dropped the phone. I was like, ‘Wow, this is amazing to be coming home.’ So it’s really something that [I want to] take full advantage of. My family, everyone’s happy, and I’m just really trying to do everything I can. … I’d say it was about 14 hours that all of that happened. When I got here [Saturday], Nick, the video guy, said, ‘Hey, do you want to grab something to eat?’ I said, ‘No, I just want to get some sleep.’ ”

The 6-foot-4, 219-pound Kilpatrick, who made his Nets debut Monday night with a one-minute cameo, was leading the Developmental League in scoring, averaging a league-high 26.4 points over 28 games. He was shooting .472 from the floor and .426 from 3-point range to make the D-League All-Star Game.

But new Brooklyn general manager Sean Marks — who ran San Antonio’s D-League team — has had his eye on Kilpatrick for years and made him his first Nets acquisition.

“Sean Marks, he’s told me he’s been watching me for the past couple years when he was with the Spurs, and he pretty much knows what I can do, and he just wants me to be myself,” Kilpatrick said. “That’s something that I want to continue to keep being, and with me being able to have that type of mentality and knowing that he has my back through everything, that’s something real huge. So it’s [more] of a confidence-booster to just continue to keep coming out here and being me.”